TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trutor,Clayton
TI  - Loserville: how professional sports remade Atlanta-and how Atlanta remade professional sports 
SN  - 9781496230096
AV  - GV584 .L674 2021
KW  - Professional sports
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Atlanta
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sports franchises
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover --; Title Page --; Copyright Page --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Forward Atlanta --; 2. America's Virgin Sports Territory --; 3. Franchise Free Agency --; 4. The Greatest Location in the World --; 5. Wisconsin volume Milwaukee Braves --; 6. Gravitating toward Atlanta --; 7. Not Catching On around Town --; 8. Losing but Improving --; 9. Atlanta Stadium, a Center of Gravity --; 10. Outside the Stadium It's the City --; 11. Atlanta Stadium, a Meeting Place --; 12. Madison Square Garden of the Southeast --; 13. The Developer Is Boss; 14. The Politics of Metropolitan Divergence --; 15. Probably Room for Basketball --; 16. The Logical Choice --; 17. How the Falcons Lost Atlanta --; 18. Atlanta's Ice Society --; 19. Just What Atlanta Needs --; 20. I Think the Fans Showed Poor Taste --; 21. Instant City --; 22. Keep Hockey a Southern Sport --; 23. Loserville No More --; 24. How the Sunbelt Became Loserville, U.S.A. --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; 2; b
N2  - Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta's pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports
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